On a page torn from a notebook, a photograph of which he posted on X, exiled Gazan poet Mosab Abu Toha drew five family trees – five nuclear families within the same extended Khader family. Thirty-six people in total. All were killed on Friday, June 6, the first day of Eid al-Adha, the most important holiday in the Muslim calendar. An Israeli bomb destroyed their five-story family building in Jabaliya, north of Gaza City.

Not included in the family tree are a handful of survivors who were absent at the time of the strike, including freelance journalist Abdelrahim Khader, who had gone out that morning. The 23-year-old photographer filmed the gray rubble of his home as he rushed toward the debris. In the video, he can be heard screaming: "Mom, Dad! Is anyone alive? Mom, Dad, Mostafa, Karim, answer me, anyone!"

The neighborhood was under an evacuation order: 82% of the entire Gaza Strip is now a military zone or an area to evacuate. Five bodies were pulled from the rubble, as well as "kilos of flesh" believed to be from two other dismembered bodies, Abdelrahim Khader reported in a phone call from Gaza. He said he was able to confirm the deaths of 38 people – he did not know if others were present in the house that day. One of his married sisters, who no longer lived with them, and an uncle, who was out at the time, survived.

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